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Science Matters

Ring of Fire

For Teachers 6th Standards
Over a period of 35 years, earthquakes and volcanoes combined only accounted for 1.5 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in the United States. The 15th lesson in a 20-part series connects the locations of earthquakes and...
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Science Matters

Eruptions and Volcano Types

For Teachers 6th Standards
The Mammoth Lakes area regularly releases warnings to hikers and skiers to be careful because melting snow releases trapped gases from volcanic vents. The 17th lesson plan in the 20-part series opens with a demonstration of carbon...
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Science Matters

Landforms from Volcanoes

For Teachers 6th Standards
Three major types of volcanoes exist: cinder cone, composite/strata, and shield. The 18th lesson in a 20-part series covers the various landforms created from volcanoes. Scholars work in pairs to correctly identify the three...
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Science Matters

Seismic Activity and California Landforms

For Teachers 6th Standards
By the 19th lesson plan in the 20-part series, scholars realize volcanoes and earthquakes are related to plate boundaries. The lesson plan extends and applies the knowledge by having individuals create a bumper sticker for one specific...
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Global Oneness Project

What Does it Mean to Be Resilient?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Imagine the determination it would take to build a helicopter out of scrap. Now imagine doing it while hindered by the effects of polio. Everything is Incredible, a short film by Tyler Bastian, introduces Agustin who has been...
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Science Matters

Basic Needs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars take part in a grand conversation about the basic needs of living things. Working collaboratively, pupils brainstorm and identify similarities to come to the conclusion that the environment meets the needs of all living...
Interactive
US National Archives

WWII: Western Europe 1939-45 – Occupation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Warsaw, Poland, suffered much of the blunt of World War II—but according to Polish letters from the early days of Nazi occupation, other parts of the country were much worse off. High schoolers use the letters and contemporaneous...
Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: The Snowy Day

For Parents K Standards
Scholars listen to a read-aloud of fiction and nonfiction books, The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, and Snow Is Falling, written by Franklyn Branley and illustrated by Holly Keller, then take part in four creative...
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Curated OER

The Take-Awar Bar 1

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use an Internet tool, "The Take-Away Bar" to solve subtraction problems by breaking them into parts. They write and solve comparison problems. Students make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers. They use...
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Curated OER

The Difference Bar 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use Internet software, The Difference Bar, to work out the difference between two numbers by breaking numbers into parts. Students use mental strategies to work out the difference between any 2 two-digit numbers. Students...
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Curated OER

Fractions and Measurement

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using a Smart Board, or a plain ol' white board or chalkboard, the teacher pulls up a grid and demonstrates how squares and rectangles can be divided up into equal parts. The class will get their own graph paper to draw shapes and divide...
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Curated OER

Fairy Tails Can Show Due:It can happen for you, If you play your part.,

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students view a Reader's Theater focusing on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The story is used as a springboard into a videotaped mock trial of Gold E. Locks developed by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). They...
Activity
Heidi Songs

Zoo Animal Probability Graph

For Teachers 1st - 7th Standards
Capture the engagement of your young mathematicians with a collaborative graphing activity. Using a deck of zoo animal picture cards, students select a picture from the deck, record the chosen animal on a graph,...
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Curated OER

More Thousands

For Students 5th - 8th
In this thousands worksheet, students fill in commas to numbers, read numbers, add numbers, and more. Students complete 7 sets of problems.
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Curated OER

Round to the Nearest Thousand

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rounding worksheet, students examine 9 different numbers, write the 2 numbers each number falls between and then round each number to the nearest thousand. Next, students solve 15 fill in the blank problems where they round...
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Curated OER

Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 6: Overview

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use fraction circles to observe fractions in smaller parts and to complete charting and word problem activities. In this fraction lesson plan, students complete chart problems, word problems, and fraction comparing problems...
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Curated OER

Fractions (Unitary)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this fraction worksheet, students determine which shape is divided into equal parts and check their answer. Students then look at shaded parts of a whole and circle the correct fraction. Finally, students determine the fraction for...
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Helping with Math

Division: 3-digit by 1-digit

For Students 4th Standards
Twenty-four problems fit neatly on this division worksheet. For each, youngsters must divide a three-digit number by a single digit. There will be remainders in all of the problems, so make sure not to assign it until you have thoroughly...
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Curated OER

Rounding to the Nearest Hundred

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rounding worksheet, students solve 10 fill in the blank problems where they examine a 2, 3 or 4 digit number, write the numbers it is between and then round each number to the nearest hundred. Next, students solve 15 fill in the...
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Curated OER

Multiplication of Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a lesson that explores the concept of using multiplication with decimals. They practice using the operation using whole numbers and progress to the use of decimals. The lesson includes dialogue for the teacher to...
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Curated OER

From One Seed Grow Many Seeds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying plants by singing a song.  In this plant life activity, 1st graders sing the song "Parts of a Plant" which is based on the anatomy of sunflowers.  Students discover agriculture techniques...
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Curated OER

Body

For Students K - Higher Ed
In this body parts worksheet, students read 10 words that name body parts and match them to the picture that illustrates each. This is intended for ESL students.
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Curated OER

Body

For Students Higher Ed
In this body activity, students will practice labeling the different parts of the body. Students will study ten photographs and match each picture with the correctly named body part.
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Curated OER

ESL: All About My Body

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL body parts worksheet, students look at 7 pictures of body parts, read a phrase, and decide if it is true or false. They read phrases such as "This is my leg," and decide if it is true or false.

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